We’re excited to announce that Sookasa has been acquired by Barracuda Networks! Barracuda Networks is a leader in cloud, network, and data security trusted by more than 175,000 organizations worldwide. Since Sookasa’s founding in 2012, our team has worked hard to bring encryption, security, and compliance to sensitive data stored in the cloud. We see great synergies between Barracuda and Sookasa, and are really excited about joining the Barracuda team and working together to achieve a leadership position in cloud security.

We will continue to operate our service within Barracuda and remain committed to our product and customers, and will continue to provide our customers the same level of great service that they’ve come to expect.

I’d like to take this opportunity thank all of our customers and partners who have supported us and provided feedback along the way. We are looking forward to continuing to work together in the next step of our journey. I’d also like to thank our employees, past and present, who have worked tirelessly to build and deliver a great product and experience. It’s been a real pleasure working with you. We also want to thank our investors and advisors for their tremendous support throughout the years. Special thanks to Signal Hill for advising us in the acquisition process.

We are looking forward to continuing our journey to make the cloud a safer place!

When your company has multiple teams working in Slack, sending each other files, collaborating on projects, and communicating across channels, it can be hard to keep track of exactly what information is being shared and how. There’s no doubt that Slack does wonders for your business’ productivity and efficiency and makes it particularly easy to share data—but you should also expect it to maintain a secure work environment. We’ve outlined Slack security basics and ways in which Sookasa can help encrypt files in Slack; another major element of a secure workplace is data loss prevention. Here’s a primer on how Sookasa can help maintain Slack data loss prevention.Read more »

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In many ways, Google Drive is an immensely useful tool: it lets you store all of your files in a single place that you can then access from anywhere and from any device. It also makes sharing files and folders with team members or collaborators essentially seamless. But the ease with which Google makes your files accessible to you may also be a major drawback. Because you’re always logged in to Google both on your computer and your phone, it can be easy for someone else to access your Google Drive files if you lose one of your devices or leave it unattended. It’s easy to imagine how that could prove disastrous if you’re using Google Drive to store sensitive client or patient information, financial data, your company’s trade secrets, or any other confidential information. There are, however, a few ways to bolster Google Drive’s security by enhancing password protection. Additionally, deploying Sookasa for Google Drive also provides a secure and simple solution to encrypt your Google Drive files, enforce two-factor authentication, and maintain other privacy controls.Read more »

Google Apps for Work quickly became one of the leading cloud providers for businesses, and it only continues to grow. By 2022, Gartner predicts that 1.2 billion business users will be using Google’s productivity suite, with nearly 700 million of them in the cloud. Google Drive, of course, is one of Google Apps’ signature components, allowing employees across industries to share docs, spreadsheets, and other files; sync them to their mobile devices with ease; and store them in the cloud for ready access from anywhere. Being able to encrypt Google Drive files is critical.Read more »